Re: Modifying /etc/apt/sources.list
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:18:45PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 06:15:07AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 02:57:51PM +0100, Oliver Hingst wrote:
> >> > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/ potato main contrib non-free
> >> >
> >> > adding "non-US" to this, gives an error about not being able to download
> >> > the Packages.gz file. What line must I add to get the package list from
> >> > the UK Debian server for non-US packages ?
> >>
> >> try:
> >>
> >> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free
> >
> >Probably need to get rid of the trailing '/' after debian.
>
> I think you'll also need non-US/main, etc., judging from the directory
> organization on ftp.uk.debian.org.
>
> My /etc/apt/sources.list reads, in part (apologies for the lack of
> line-wrapping):
>
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/non-US woody non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
No, specifying "woody/non-US" means you only need to specify "main contrib
non-free" as in the original example.
Ben
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